Chinese Character Wiki
笄

jī

hairpin

Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 幵 represents the sound.

Components
⺮ meaning component

⺮  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

bamboo

幵 sound,meaning component

幵  Sound Meaning component

jiān, qiān

  

hairpin

Evolution

笄 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
笄 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
笄 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

笄  

jī

hairpin; fifteen year old girl; 15 years old; hairpin for bun

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ˤer (dialect: *-r > *-j)

kej

jī

hairpin


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5703rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+7B04

Shuowen

“笄，簪也，从竹幵聲。”


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